Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the names of Nixon and Warren came first in most speculation, many other names were cropping up. Among them: Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, 65; former New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, 53; Secretary of State Dulles, 67; Senate Minority Leader William Knowland, 47; Presidential Assistant (for Disarmament) Harold Stassen, 48; Massachusetts Governor Christian Herter, 60. But all of the talking this week was being done by journalists and just plain voters. It would take Republican leaders quite a while to become accustomed to their new and unhappy-but by no means hopeless-situation...
...change in the program was made partly at the request of Treasury Secretary Humphrey, who complained that write-off permission was being handed out for facilities designed primarily to meet civilian demand. If the program were continued, said Humphrey, the Government would lose some $3.3 billion in taxes from 1955 through 1959, without getting a compensating amount of defense capacity in return. ODM agreed, found that in some cases write-off certificates, although used for facilities high on the defense list, failed to bring about expansion. Example: railroads used write-off privileges to buy new freight cars to replace older...
...loyalty program in a speech in Spokane, Wash. Cain, unable to gain Administration support, continued to press for action, lobbying actively for a bi-partisan commission to review the operation of the loyalty program. After the President rejected this proposal, Cain secured the support of Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey who sponsored a congressional resolution creating the commission under legislative direction. The first meeting of the commission is slated for the opening of the next session of congress, sometime early next year...
...idea for the Stevenson script originated in the bouncy political organization of Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey, whence came the suggestion that Stevenson, as a peg for taking off on the Eisenhower Administration, might recall the 1952 campaign day when both Adlai and Ike traveled to Kasson, Minn., to set forth their farm policies...
Savoir-Faire. In Detroit. Arnold L. Humphrey, 20, got a ten-day jail sentence for reckless driving after police spotted him perched on the door of his convertible with his legs dangling above the street, while he steered with one hand, worked the brake and the accelerator with a tree branch held in the other...